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There's also the whole section on testing added to the tracking segment. If you test properly and also use heat maps, you can use this to find good SEO traffic funnels to other sites and you can get more data on the links linking to you and where you should focus your efforts. On a different note, testing is best for conversion optimization, which traffic does lead to conversions but pages should be tested constantly.

Blekko isn't really a big search engine yet but is good to take notice of because of the use of slashtags versus the normal algos of search engines like Google. It will probably be a niche search engine or will grow to something more. Also, I will write a post on all of the tactics I've found through time on link building. It is a HUGE article so I'll have to go through and get rid of methods that don't work anymore and structure it correctly.

Another great tool is SEO Site Tools for finding data from Majestic, SEOMoz as well as Google, Yahoo and Bing, etc.

Use Aaron Wall's SEO For Firefox tool too which shows details on all sections of data in the search results for whatever webpage or root website you are looking at. With these, you can see competitor links and can build the same links or use search operators like what was said in this post.

lol everything in this world gets advertised or marketed whether it be active or passive. If you make a digital asset, it will have to be marketed/advertised in order to survive esp in order for your testing and tracking of the page at the lowest end...

That info is cool for Coke. I never actually knew that. The thing with Google is that Google will always be at the top of their game (and within nanoseconds of your brain) due to many facts including the fact that their search engine continues to evolve.

Watching Google evolve in their products, services and their algos has been fun and continues to be so amazing and interesting

The Query Deserves Freshness or QDF algorithm is the way Google is becoming more instant and more fresh - this will also drive integrated search with constant updating content. I think that the key to new SEO will be in developing news portals and developing content through the use of constantly updating information and such for each industry and keyword term. Build the ranking of your site and the PR of your main domain name and you can propogate the rest of the PR for inner pages. This combined with consistent content = gold

THE QDF solution revolves around determining whether a topic is “hot.” If news sites or blog posts are actively writing about a topic, the model figures that it is one for which users are more likely to want current information. The model also examines Googleâ€™s own stream of billions of search queries, which Mr. Singhal believes is an even better monitor of global enthusiasm about a particular subject.

As an example, he points out what happens when cities suffer power failures. “When there is a blackout in New York, the first articles appear in 15 minutes; we get queries in two seconds,” he says.

Mr. Singhal says he tested QDF for a simple application: deciding whether to include a few news headlines among regular results when people do searches for topics with high QDF scores. Although Google already has a different system for including headlines on some search pages, QDF offered more sophisticated results, putting the headlines at the top of the page for some queries, and putting them in the middle or at the bottom for others.

The QDF model takes a number of factors into account, including:

- Search volume

- News coverage

- Blog coverage

- Toolbar data (maybe)

I'm sure social media is added into this mix. I hope this helps add to this conversation.

You can use so many other services for indexing fast through social bookmarking like Yahoo! Buzz. I would say the fastest ways are through pubsubhubbub and ping systems built into cms and wordpress/blog systems. Autoblogs rule but you have to build their rankings through buying links or getting links organically through the use of Digg power users and Digg as well as social bookmarking methods.

It's great building on the reputation, popularity and success of an article in order to optimize your own content. This article focused on one aspect of analytics while the other one focused on the overall article view of conversion opt. and analytics opt

I would cater to the US and Canada and then focus on other English speaking countries. The site is viewed differently based upon the audience so if you DO go for traffic from other countries, I would highly recommend that you optimize your focal points and your painting (web design) to the country's audience

Focus on the user first and THEN the search engines, and then use this data for SEO in terms of where to send people the most and this would let you know where people click the most / where they originate from. From the standpoint of helping SEO: I would use the heatmap data to optimize the landing pages of traffic origination and then I would use A/B Splits or multivariate to add to this as well as focus on the Site Overlay.

The better the look of the landing pages/site, the higher the number of links attracted to the content, thus allowing an increase in search rankings for the SERPs.

I would love to add that there are two tools available for free which do the same things as CrazyEgg (although I DO love CrazyEgg). I would use the fivesecondtest as shown above as well as http://www.labsmedia.com/clickheat/156926.html (ClickHeat) and the Google Analytics Site Overlay tool. There are so many things which add to usability and add to the content and optimization of your content for conversion. I'd shoot for Google Analytics and ClickHeat followed by a combo of Google Analytics and Crazy Egg or to go a SIGNIFICANT step forward -- Omniture Site Catalyst